Thanks for the explanation. I think I at least understand what it's doing now. I'm either surprised or confused though, as I was under the impression that you could substitute a subquery for a value pretty much anywhere, but I guess that's not the case?
Cheers,
Ken
Cheers,
Ken
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:16 PM, David Johnston <polobo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken Tanzer wrote
> ets_reach=> SELECT 'found' WHERE 'test' = ANY( (SELECTPer documentation of "ANY" it accepts either an array or a subquery. This
> ARRAY['test','pass','fail']) );
>
> ERROR: array value must start with "{" or dimension information
> LINE 1: SELECT 'found' WHERE 'test' = ANY( (SELECT ARRAY['test','pas...
> ^
is the subquery form. PostgreSQL is trying to convert 'test' into an array
in order to match the array column returned by the subquery.
Remove the "SELECT" to make it work the way you expect - i.e., the
ANY(array) form of the _expression_.
David J.
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